Pop Culture: An Analysis Of Rape Culture

Rape culture is so prominent in society that every women has an experience where they felt sexually violated by a man; too often these stories are normalized and eventually women lose track of the amount of stories they have. This pattern allows rape culture to become a part of life, something society has grown to accept. Instead of teaching boy to not rape, society teaches girls how to avoid being raped; those times that girls are raped and sexually assaulted, instead of blaming the attacker, people blame the victim. Time after time, each sexual assault victim that has reported the crime has been blamed for the attack either by society or the legal system, or both. The victims are questioned and endure their lives being picked apart, in order …show more content…
at the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times. She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in fetal position. By the way, he’s really good at swimming. Throw in my mile time if that’s what we’re doing. I’m good at cooking, put that in there, I think the end is where you list your extracurriculars to cancel out all the sickening things that’ve happened” (Bever). The article about Doe and her life-altering attack were described in detail, only to be followed up with a positive fact about the attacker. This type of strategy is not new, often times in the news and articles, the attacker’s good deeds and extracurriculars are highlighted after telling of the gruesome attack committed by this very same person. The victims are never praised for their accomplishments, nor are their accomplishes ever even told. It’s the attackers that are the ones humanized in the news stories, instead of the victims. Amy Ma tweeted, “#yesallwomen because the media will mourn the lives of ruined high school football players, but not of the girls they assaulted” (electramy). This trend of disregarding the victim and empathizing with the attackers in news outlets continues on and directly reflects how society not only views victims of sexual assault, but women in general. The lives of the victims are seen as less important than the rapists’ lives. The media and public choose to ignore the damage done to the girl’s lives and instead take a moment to mourn all the potential that the attacker had in their life. Every time another sexual assault happens and the news responds with this same trend, it only emphasises how little the world thinks of the victim’s life and how much the world thinks of the attacker’s